SPORTS
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Soccer
East Oregonian
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MLB
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SAN ANTONIO — Jor-
dan Morris made a loud
statement
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start for the
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tional team
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against his
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biggest and
most bitter
rival.
His re-
Mexico
ward?
A
game pen-
nant given
to him by
veteran Michael Bradley to
hang in his room at college.
The 20-year-old Stanford
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international goal early in
the second half, Juan Agude-
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al goal in four years, and the
Americans dispatched Mex-
ico by their traditional 2-0
score in an exhibition game
Wednesday night.
“I was nervous but I was
excited,” Morris said. “It’s
something I’ve dreamed of
since I was a little kid, scor-
ing a goal, especially in such
a big game in front of so
many fans.”
Morris, thought to be the
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U.S. in at least two decades,
scored in the 49th minute af-
ter Bradley brought the ball
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Zardes. The return pass ric-
ocheted off defender Mario
Osuna and was picked up by
Morris at the top of the pen-
alty area. He took a touch,
broke in and slid the ball be-
tween the legs of goalkeep-
er Cirilo Saucedo from 10
yards.
“It just kind of popped
out,” Morris said. “I’m
happy that when I got the
chance, I got to the ball and
put it away.”
Agudelo replaced Morris
in the 65th and scored seven
minutes later. Bradley made
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line and Agudelo controlled
it just outside the penalty
area. He cut inside with half
board in the fourth when
Cruz homered to right-cen-
ter. They got another run in
the sixth on an RBI ground-
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out by Kyle Seager with
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the bases loaded, and were
victory with the Los Angeles
threatening for more when
Dodgers, Scott Van Slyke
hit a two-run double, and straight games. The three- Robinson Cano ran himself
the two-time defending NL time All-Star led the majors into a costly out.
Paco Rodriguez had just
West champions completed last season with nine inter-
a three-game sweep of the league home runs, and he walked Morrison when Cano
Seattle Mariners with a 5-2 had four in this series. Cruz inexplicably kept creeping
victory on Wednesday night. signed a four-year, $47 down the third base line, try-
Anderson (1-0) allowed million, contract with the ing to get catcher Yasmani
two runs — one earned — and Mariners in December af- Grandal napping. But Ro-
VL[KLWVRYHU¿YHLQQLQJVDQG ter hitting a career-high 40 driguez frantically motioned
and yelled to his battery-
struck out three in the annual homers for Baltimore.
The Dodgers, coming off mate, who reacted quickly
Civil Rights Game, which in-
cluded a pregame ceremony back-to-back walkoff vic- and ran Cano back to third
celebrating the 68th anniver- tories against Seattle in the before Juan Uribe tagged
sary of Jackie Robinson’s ma- ¿UVWLQWHUOHDJXHVHULHVRIWKH him for the second out.
season for both clubs, did all
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Pedro Baez, one of sev- RI WKHLU VFRULQJ LQ WKH ¿UVW
eral relievers manager Don three innings. They grabbed dez, whose second start of
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er Kenley Jansen, pitched dre Ethier and Van Slyke’s nings because of tightness in
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and four walks in four in- ing single in the third. He on Saturday against Texas at
added a double in the sixth Safeco Field. “My conversa-
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By JOE RESNICK
Associated Press
By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press
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AP Photo/Darren Abate
USA forward Jordan Morris (8) chases the ball against
Mexico defender Carlos Salcedo (13) during the first
half of an international friendly soccer match, Wednes-
day, April 15, 2015, in San Antonio.
a dozen touches and beat
Saucedo to the near post with
a low shot from 19 yards.
It was the third interna-
tional goal for Agudelo and
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ing his second international
match since November 2012
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year, he dropped to his knees
and was mobbed by a group
of teammates.
Before a sellout crowd of
64,369, U.S. coach Jurgen
Klinsmann improved to 3-0-
3 against his team’s regional
rival.
The U.S. has defeated
Mexico by “dos a cero” in
four straight home World
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bus, Ohio. The U.S. is 13-5-5
against Mexico since 2000,
including a win in the second
round of the 2002 World Cup.
With the game not on a
FIFA international date, both
teams were missing top play-
ers. And with the U.S. look-
ing ahead to this summer’s
CONCACAF Gold Cup,
Klinsmann mixed a roster of
veterans and young players.
Morris, who trained with
the national team last May
and made his debut at Ireland
in November, started because
captain Clint Dempsey is
sidelined by a hamstring in-
jury and Jozy Altidore was
serving a one-game suspen-
sion for a red card.
“You say, ‘Why not give
him a chance?”’ Klinsmann
said. “He trained very well.
We see his improvement.”
Klinsmann also saw some
nerves in the youngster.
“When Jordan was doing
his shooting before the game,
he was pretty much missing
everything. I told him, ‘Just
relax. It’s OK,”’ Klinsmann
said. “To see a boy like Mor-
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goal, you jump for joy.”
Klinsmann also gave de-
fender Ventura Alvarado his
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back Omar Gonzalez for the
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World Cup.
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AP Photo/Alex Gallardo
Seattle Mariners’ Fernando Rodney, right, looks over as players stand on the first
base line to honor Jackie Robinson day by wearing number 42 for a baseball
game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
HERNANDEZ: Defense admission during closing arguments played key role
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him from the team. The team
declined to comment on the
verdict.
Prosecutors presented a
wealth of evidence that Her-
nandez was with Lloyd at the
time he was killed, including
home security video from
Hernandez’s mansion, wit-
ness testimony and cellphone
records that tracked Lloyd’s
movements.
Hernandez’s
lawyer,
James Sultan, acknowledged
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ing arguments that Hernan-
dez was there when Lloyd
was killed.
But the attorney pinned
the shooting on two of Her-
nandez’s friends, Ernest Wal-
lace and Carlos Ortiz, saying
his client was a “23-year-old
kid” who witnessed a shock-
ing crime and did not know
what to do. Wallace and Ortiz
will stand trial later.
Prosecutors have sug-
gested Lloyd may have been
killed because he knew too
much about Hernandez’s al-
leged involvement in a 2012
drive-by shooting in Boston
that killed two. But they were
not allowed to tell the jury
that because the judge said it
was speculation.
As a result, they never of-
fered jurors a motive beyond
saying Hernandez appeared
angry with Lloyd at a night-
club two nights before the
killing.
In the 2012 case, Hernan-
dez is accused of gunning
down a pair of men over a
spilled drink at a nightclub.
All 12 jurors and three
alternates spoke to report-
ers Wednesday, saying they
were shocked by the defense
admission that Hernandez
was at the scene of the killing
— an acknowledgement that
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he was guilty.
They also described how
the judge talked to them
privately after they reached
their decision and told them
about other allegations and
evidence not presented in
the case, including the 2012
slayings and the last texts
Lloyd sent minutes before he
died saying that said he was
with “NFL.”
The jurors said that infor-
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ing that they had made the
right decision.
In the Lloyd killing, the
defense argued that investi-
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because of his celebrity and
conducted a shoddy investi-
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their suspicions.
Prosecutors said Hernan-
dez organized the killing,
summoned his two friends
to help carry it out and drove
Lloyd and the others to the
secluded spot in the indus-
trial park. During closing
arguments, prosecutors also
accused Hernandez of pull-
ing the trigger, though under
the law it was not necessary
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to convict him.
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BLAZERS: Griz
will have home court
advantage
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his sixth straight game with a
right knee injury, and Devin
Harris was sidelined after
injuring his left big toe Mon-
day against Utah.
But all the other regulars
played. Chandler had his 31st
double-double — the most
since he had 38 with New
Orleans in 2007-08 — while
Dirk Nowitzki had 16 points
and Monta Ellis added 15.
“I don’t know how you
tune up if you’re not trying to
win,” Dallas coach Rick Car-
lisle said before the game.
“Probably not a very useful
exercise to be out there if
you’re not going for it.”
Hernandez’s home showed
him holding what appeared
to be a gun less than 10 min-
utes after Lloyd was killed.
The surveillance system also
captured Hernandez, Wal-
lace and Ortiz relaxing at his
home hours after Lloyd was
shot, hanging out in the base-
ment “man cave,” lounging
by the pool and cuddling
Hernandez’s baby daughter.
The conviction carries a
mandatory sentence of life
without parole and automat-
ically triggers an appeal to
Massachusetts’ highest court.
Hernandez was initial-
ly taken to the state’s Cedar
Junction prison, a maxi-
mum-security facility less
than a 4-mile drive from Gil-
lette Stadium, where he once
caught touchdown passes
from Tom Brady in front of
tens of thousands of fans.
He was to be processed
there and eventually taken
to Souza Baranowski pris-
on in Shirley, another max-
imum-security institution,
according to Darren Duarte,
a spokesman for the Massa-
chusetts Department of Cor-
rections.
Lloyd’s sister, Olivia Thi-
bou, said Wednesday that
prosecutors in the trial were
her “dream team.” Lloyd’s
mother, Ursula Ward, told the
judge she forgave Hernandez
and everyone else “who had
a hand in my son’s murder,
either before or after.”
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